{"id":11473,"date":"2017-09-15T13:20:31","date_gmt":"2017-09-15T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/?p=11473"},"modified":"2017-09-15T15:50:53","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T19:50:53","slug":"garry-tan-and-i-on-the-counterintuitive-stuff-in-yc-stanford-engineering-and-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/garry-tan-and-i-on-the-counterintuitive-stuff-in-yc-stanford-engineering-and-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Garry Tan and I on The Counterintuitive Stuff in YC, Stanford Engineering and Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"
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7\/7\/17, 2:34 PM<\/a><\/div>\n
@andreisavu<\/a> @rabois<\/a> @paulg<\/a> So many: Spending too much money, not working hard, not making a good product, not doing enough sales, not charging enough, hiring poorly<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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What a nice dinner conversation we had Joseph Vasquez and Neilda Pacquing and friends that Joe gathered together!<\/span><\/div>\n

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Here’s the tweet and rabbit-hole. I say rabbit hole because counter-intuitive stuff is how I got my springboard start. I say rabbit hole because it runs pretty deep and very, very people risk talking about counterintuitive<\/b><\/i> entrepreneurship truths Re Paul Graham and Keith Rabois on stuff that’s “counter-intuitive”<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/span><\/td>\nKeith Rabois (@rabois<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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@paulg<\/a> @garrytan<\/a> The challenge is that they are so counter-intuitive that if you just avoided the mistakes you might have an 80% prospect for success.<\/span><\/font><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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<\/span><\/td>\nPaul Graham (@paulg<\/a>)<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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7\/6\/17, 2:22 PM<\/font><\/a><\/div>\n
Startups lose by making unforced errors.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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By Larry Chiang Garry Tan (@garrytan) 7\/7\/17, 2:34 PM @andreisavu @rabois @paulg So many: Spending too much money, not working hard, not making a good product, not doing enough sales, not charging enough, hiring poorly What a nice dinner conversation we had Joseph Vasquez and Neilda Pacquing and friends that Joe gathered together! Here’s the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stanford-engineering","category-stanford-entrepreneurship"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}